Search Engine Friendly URLs?

Report · Aug 08, 2007

Can someone point me to a resource on how to implement SEO friendly urls in Cold Fusion? It seems that PHP has a lot of support for this but I can't find much at all for Cold Fusion.

Basically I am wondering if it is possible to convert something like this:

www.mysite.com/page.cfm?id=5

into

www.mysite.com/category/some-seo-topic.html

This is a big issue these days and I don't see much support or documentation from CF. Thanks for any help offered.

Report · Aug 08, 2007

I worked at place where we were very SEO friendly.

If you are using Apache look up mod_rewrite to take your actual URL and rewrite it to something that looks like directory level stuff:

Here is a wiki link that can get you started.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_rewrite

But honestly if you are just doing ?id=5 you should be fine. It is only when you have an large URL with variables and ampersands that you start seeing Search Engine depreciation for you your site. Plus search engines change there algorithms regularly, that means you would have to see what they prefer and keep up with them. You would better spend your efforts on page content, unless your site is amazingly big....

Frank